Nicoleta Esinencu was born in 1978 in the Moldavian capital of Chişinău. She studied dramatic writing at the national Academy of Arts. In 2001, together with Mihai Fusu and Dumitru Crudu, she wrote the play »A şaptea cafanã« (tr: The Seventh Coffee House) which was staged in Moldova, Romania, and
is the co-founder of European Alternatives, a poet and a philosopher living in Paris, born in London to Italian and British parents. Milanese was educated in Cambridge, Siena and Paris where he was an Entente Cordiale Scholar. He has been involved in the founding of organisations, magazines and initiatives, including
Nicholas Shakespeare was born in Worcester, England in 1957 and grew up, a diplomat’s son, in Asia and Latin America. He studied literature at the University of Cambridge and worked as a journalist for the BBC and “The Times”. He was also literary editor of “The Daily Telegraph” and “The
Nell Zink, born in 1964 in California, grew up in rural Virginia and went to the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg. She has been interested in nature conservation since she was a child. In 1993 in Philadelphia, she founded the »Fanzine Animal Review«, which published, among others, texts
Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ was born in 1971 in Evanston, Illinois, the son of renowned Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. Growing up in Kenya, he later returned to the USA where he studied political science at Albright College and creative writing at Boston University before graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The writer, poet, and theater author of Turkish-Arab origin Murathan Mungan was born in Istanbul in 1955 and grew up in Mardin near the Syrian border. His childhood was marked by linguistic-cultural contradictions, many of his Kurdish and Arab relatives were not skilled in Turkish; his father encouraged him not
Muhsin Al-Ramli, also known as Muhisin Mutlak Rodhan, was born in 1967 in northern Iraq. In 1988, he began working as a journalist and newspaper editor in Iraq and Jordan and wrote columns and reportages for various magazines in the Arabic-speaking world. He has lived in Madrid since 1995. He
Mirko Bonné was born in 1965 in Tegernsee, Germany. He completed his Abitur and his alternative to military service not far from Hamburg. Following that, he worked as a bookselling assistant, a geriatric nursing assistant, a taxi driver, and a journalist. Since the early 1990s, Mirko Bonné has published volumes
is a paleoanthropologist and prehistorian. Before acquiring her habilitation in Tübingen in 2006, she worked as a lecturer in Cambodia and did research at the Aarhus Universitet from 2005 to 2007. Since 2008, she has been scientific coordinator of the research centre »The Role of Culture in Early Expansion of
raised between Germany and Brazil, studied applied theatre studies in Gießen and Paris (with artists like Heiner Goebbels, Xavier Le Roy, Mathilde Monnier, among others). She lives in Berlin and works as a freelance theatre dramaturge, director and soundartist developing new forms of performative and live radioplay in theatre, radio
born in Wittgendorf in 1943. Michael Krüger was a bookseller in London, a literary critic and an editor, before he became the director of Carl Hanser Verlag in 1986. Since 1981 he has published the literary journal »Akzente«. Krüger is one of the most important publishers in Germany and has
Michael Ondaatje was born in Ceylon (today Sri Lanka) in 1943. After spending ten years in England, where he began his studies, the eighteen-year-old migrated to Canada and has been a Canadian citizen since 1962. He studied at Bishop’s University, the University of Toronto and Queen’s University, and since 1971
